Unearthing the Hidden Beats: How LGBTQ Music Revolutionized Culture from 1969 to 2000
The preface sets my expectations beautifully, with sentiments that both make me laugh with wisdom—“Straight white people tend to think everything is about them”—and align with my understanding of the word: “The closet and disclosure aren’t completely binary.” And after a nostalgic revisit to The Partridge Family (I remember watching The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family back to back as a kid, delighted by technicolor families so unlike my own, and I suspected, had my father allowed it, that my televisual world would have truly birthed new ideas if I could have watched Love, American Style after The Partridge Family), Barry Walters sets premise for the sixty chapters of his book. “Straight critics have been telling us how to hear our music for ages, so I’m simply offering a queer alternative.”
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